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...college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist on publishing about inaccessible European shows. But you, my reader beleaguered by that meandering and self-righteous introduction, are in for a treat. This review of an overseas exhibit does contain some of the smugness of the jet-setting art critics I previously scorned—but, with the caveat...
...Foley's aides insist that the e-mails in question do nothing to belie his commitment to child protection issues, saying the exchanges between the congressman and the page - in which Foley asks what the boy would like for his birthday and requests a picture of him - were innocuous and "nonchalant" chat. But the boy, a page in the office of Louisiana Representative Rodney Alexander, also a Republican, e-mailed other colleagues saying Foley's messages "freaked me out," and he repeatedly called the photo request "sick...
...Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas announced they were stepping down from Congress this year after being dogged by questions about their relationships with the disgraced lobbyist, who has plead guilty to mail fraud and bribery; Ney has already pleaded guilty to bribery charges, while DeLay has continued to insist he did nothing wrong. But a bipartisan report by the House Committee on Government Reform released Thursday puts the White House at the center of questions about whether the lobbyist improperly influenced its decisions on policy matters, just as he did on Capitol Hill. Here's what we learned from...
...Estonia an unalloyed financial and technological utopia? Not quite. Oddly, the country's economic coherence of the past 15 years has gone hand-in-hand with political fractiousness. There have been 12 governments since 1991, and increasingly there's a polarization between those who insist it's vital for Estonia to stick to its current successful model and those who argue it's time for serious tinkering. The tax system, widely seen as a cornerstone of Estonia's success to date, faces the biggest threat. A 26% flat income tax was introduced in 1994. The rate has since dropped...
...departmental courses remains agonizingly low. We are stumped as to why English 151, “The 19th Century Novel,” is somehow worthy of Core credit, while English 141, “The 18th Century Novel,” is not. Bizarrely, the Core continues to insist that its presentation of various “approaches to learning” justifies its distinctness from the rest of the curriculum. Perhaps students could be expected to put up with this absurd pretense while the Core was the only game in town. But now that all relevant parties have...